Most of Faulkner's works are set in his hometown Mississippi River, and he is also considered as one of the most important southern writers. Along with Mark Twain, Robert Pan Warren, Flannery OConnor, Truman Capo, eudora welty and tennessee williams. Before he won the Nobel Prize, he was almost unknown, although his works were published frequently in the mid-1920s. He is now regarded as one of the most important writers in America.
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Faulkner's plot is full of complex psychological changes of the characters, and delicate emotional descriptions are interspersed among them. The biggest external features of his works are long and complicated sentences and exquisite vocabulary selected after repeated deliberation. His prolific life is envied by many American writers, but many people are critical of him. He and Hemingway, whose style is simple and clear, are even more extreme. It is generally believed that he was the only truly American modernist writer in the 1930 s, echoing European literary experimenters Joyce, Woolf, Proust and others, and used a lot of innovative literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, multi-angle narration and the passage of time in his statements.
Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner was deeply influenced by the Mississippi River and grew up in the southern United States. When he was four years old, his family moved near Oxford, where he spent the rest of his life. Oxford is the prototype of Jefferson's novels. It belongs to Oxford Town and lafitte County, Mississippi, and it is also the prototype of the fictional Yorknapatafa County in his novel. His great-grandfather William? Clark. Faulkner is a famous historical figure in northern Mississippi. He was a colonel in the Confederate army and built a railway. A town in the state is also named after him. He also wrote several novels and other works, and this literary tradition has been handed down at home. John in Faulkner's works? Colonel Sartor Rees was created on the basis of his great-grandfather. Faulkner was deeply influenced by family traditions and southern customs. His works have the unique sense of humor of southerners, profoundly depicting sensitive issues such as the status, coexistence and contradiction between blacks and whites, and vividly depicting the image of southerners. Early in his writing career, an editor misspelled his name as "Faulkner", and Faulkner himself decided to use it wrongly.
His most famous works are Sound and Fury (Sound and Fury) (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932) and Invincible (1. (1936). He is also a prolific short story writer: his first collection of short stories, Thirteen Stories (1932), contains his most acclaimed short stories in the literary world (and is often selected by various collections), including A Rose for Emily, Red Leaves, and so on. /kloc-in the mid-1990s, in order to make money, he published Pulp Fiction's Temple. Among them, the theme of evil and corruption (accompanied by a strong southern Gothic style) still affects popular literature. The sequel to this book, Requiem for a Nun, is his only published play. The introduction is a whole sentence, and the complex and continuous structure dragged on for several pages before it ended. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fable. After his death, he won the National Book Award for Selected Stories.
Faulkner is also an excellent writer of mystery novels. He published a series of crime novels "Knight's Gambit" featuring Gavin Stevens, a lawyer who also appeared in some other novels of Faulkner and knew the world of Patafa County, York like the back of his hand. Many of Faulkner's novels are set in this fictional Yoknapatafa County, and the prototype is lafayette County, where his hometown is located. Yoknapatafa is a symbol of Faulkner's works and one of the famous fictional places in the history of literature. His former residence in Oxford (Mississippi) has also become a museum, managed by the University of Mississippi.
Later, he started his career as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and adapted plays for Sleeping directed by Howard Hawkes (1946) and Hemingway's With or Without. Faulkner also had an affair with Hawkes' secretary, Meta Carpenter.
He is also a famous alcoholic, who has been soaked in alcohol all his life. It is said that he will drink more after the happy event and it will last for a long time. And he often drinks in bed, and his family brings wine to accompany him. There is an anecdote that says: 1949 after learning that he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he planned to get drunk before going to Stockholm. On the day of the notice, his nephew also came to visit with wine to celebrate his victory in a football match. Although he was drunk at that time, Faulkner compared the time of these two events together, and suddenly realized that his family was cheating him. For fear that he would get drunk when he received the prize, he changed the date of going to Sweden. Knowing the truth, he still drank it until he really set out.
His acceptance speech in Stockholm is one of the most wonderful speeches in Nobel Prize in Literature. He said: "I refuse to think that human beings have come to an end ... human beings can endure hardships and will eventually win." This speech fits his character very well. He donated his prize money to "set up a fund to support and encourage new literary talents", and finally set up the International PEN/Faulkner Novel Award.
Faulkner was a resident writer of the University of Virginia from 1957 to 1962.
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Soldier's salary) (1926+0926)
Mosquito (1927)
Sartor Rees (1929).
Noise and Fury (1929)
On my deathbed (1930)
Temple (193 1)
Light in August (1932)
Hanger (1935)
Absalom! Absalom! "(Absalom, Absalom! )( 1936)
Invincible (1938)
If I forge a palm (wild palm/old man) (1939)
Small village (1940)
Go down, Moses) (1942+0942)
Intruders in the dust (1948)
Requiem for Nuns (195 1)
Fable (1954)
Small town (1957)
Building (1959)
Mr. and Mrs. Lefevers (1962)
Flags in the Dust (1973)
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poetry anthology
Spring scenery (192 1)
Marble Shepherd (1924)
This land (1932)
Green branch (1965)
Mississippi Poetry (1979)
Poetry of Helen and Mississippi (198 1)
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